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Domestic Terrorist Acts as Cultural Texts: A Pentadic Analysis
Get PDFFormer British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher once said that publicity is the oxygen of terrorism. It is our position that mass-mediated terrorism, white supremacy, and doctrines of racial superiority that justify discrimination, segregation, domination, and even extermination of persons of color should be deprived of the oxygen of publicity. At the same time, we believe that analysis, discussion, confrontation, and condemnation of terrorism and hateful ideologies is painful but necessary. The hate speech and radical ideologies of today’s web-based terrorists reach far beyond traditional means of communication. The purpose of this paper is to use Kenneth Burke’s pentad to analyze acts of domestic terrorism while removing the names of the perpetrators — the oxygen of terrorism in the Internet Age. We begin our analysis of three recent acts of domestic terrorism with a short analysis of The Turner Diaries, written by William Pierce under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald, as a critical exemplary narrative that continues to drive hate speech, radicalization, and physical violence
No Honor in Genocide: A Case Study of Street Renaming and Community Organizing in the Wake of National Decolonization Efforts
Get PDFThe United States hosts countless streets, structures, and cities named after colonial and military leaders. Although many of these white historical figures, like Robert E. Lee, were revered in their own eras, modern history now acknowledges their involvement in immoral acts such as slavery and genocide. As they recognize that individuals responsible for such traumatic events should no longer be honored, the citizens of many towns and cities across the nation are attempting to rename their public properties. These efforts, however, rarely prove straightforward; the process of renaming a single road, for example, requires a thorough understanding of city ordinances and codes, coordination between various government entities, strong public support, and collaboration between multiple community stakeholders. This case study highlights and examines such critical components of the renaming of a road in the City of Spokane, Washington. Named after a mid-1800s U.S. military leader who contributed to the genocide of Native Americans and the slaughter of hundreds of their horses, Fort George Wright Drive had served as a mile-long arterial in Spokane for more than 34 years. Although both local Native Americans and other Spokane community members had attempted several times since the 1990s to change the name of the road, their efforts did not finally lead to success until December of 2020. This report also elucidates how Tribal community activism remains uniquely tied to Native culture. Tribal members from the surrounding reservations and Natives living in the City utilized Tribal art, oral history, as well as Tribal songs to advocate for change. These Indigenous songs have been passed down for the 168 years since the hanging of Tribal warriors by Colonel Wright in 1858. To change the name of the road, Natives and white allies also took more tangible actions: projecting messages on buildings, writing letters, organizing meetings, coordinating teach-ins, and staging rallies/marches. This study documents how extensive organizing between the Spokane Tribe, other local Tribes, the Spokane City Council, the Spokane City Plan Commission, and community activists ultimately led to the renaming of Fort George Wright Drive to “Whistalks Way.” Whis-talks was the daughter of Chief Polatkin and wife of Qualchan. She rode alongside her husband into battle and carried the medicine eagle feather staff into the U.S. military post to parley. The Spokane Tribe selected Whis-talks, later adapted to “Whistalks” without the hyphen, to not only honor women warriors of the battlefields of the 1800s, but to also honor the Spokane Tribal women of our families today. With this new name, the Spokane Tribe honors the female warriors who daily fight to protect and preserve our culture, our lifeways, our families, our lands, our environment, and our Tribe. Further, this report will illustrate the critical role that timing of elections and nationwide events can play in such efforts, particularly when coinciding with nationwide events
Using Data Visualization to Analyze Big Data in Social Networks
Get PDFToday social networks allow protests to develop using complex components and strategies; furthermore, new tools for digital analysis allow scholars to study patterns and connections in those social movements analyzing online protests and the complex rhetorical work and connections occurring within an online protest (Hayes, 2016). The tools and programs available to study social media in many ways make the process easier, in regards to the amount and type of data available. Nonetheless, this increase in available data presents challenges as data must be collected, sorted, selected, and analyzed. The options present many difficult choices as much of this is charting new territory, along with new methods.
When using digital methods, Richard Rogers (2013) advocates the understanding and usage of not only the digital devices, but how the digital objects created by these devices can assist in creating research questions. He asks how these digital objects such as hashtags, followers, tweets or locations can be juxtaposed and used as more than a means for finding information, but for using information. Using these digital objects does require tools, as Derek Hansen, Ben Shneiderman, & Marc A. Smith (2011) discuss the advantages of using social network analysis (SNA), “Social network analysis offers a systematic method to evaluate social media efforts, replacing anecdotes with scientifically based evidence” (p.8). Their discussion focuses on the governmental and business uses of SNA to determine the successes and failures of social media strategies, these same concepts can apply to understanding online protests or online social movements. Additionally, Jeremy Foote, Aaron Shaw & Benjamin Mako Hill (2017) explain the ability of network analysis to take large quantities of data to explore relationships and connections.
Twitter is showcased as an entity that provides digital objects to examine relationships and connections as well as the success of a hashtag campaign. Axel Bruns, Tim Highfield & Jean Burgess (2013) study two separate online protests during the Arab Spring in order to analyze the connections and language (Arabic and English) between the two campaigns using the hashtags #egypt and #libya. They discovered the use of Twitter was complex and while Twitter played a role in the quest for regime change, it was not the only method or tool used. Axel Bruns (2012) used SNA to examine conversations occurring on Twitter through analyzing the use of hashtags along with @replies and retweets. This analysis enabled the visualization of how participants participated, the roles they played, and how conversations evolved over time. Additionally, Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, & Tim Highfield (2014) gathered multiple hashtags covering different Australian events to understand how Australians overall are using Twitter versus focusing on one event/one hashtag.
Online protests consisting of hashtag activism have focused on a multitude of issues ranging from economic, sexual assault, racial equality, police brutality, and social justice. Some examples include #BlackLivesMatter, #OccupyWallstreet, #BringBackOurGirls, and #MeToo, along with the recent #GetMePPE, which is a call to showcase the lack of Personal Protective Equipment that medical workers and first responders are encountering in their work against COVID-19.
Using digital tools to collect, display, and analyze data using social network analysis can assist in developing and answering research questions within these (and other) online social movements/protests to understand how participants create connections, construct knowledge, and share through their digital discourse and writing. This webtext will explain how social network analysis (SNA) and other data visualizations can assist digital humanists in researching and answering questions in analyzing big data related to protest movements through a case study of the SNA used in analyzing #MyNYPD
Database (Academic)
No full textCorpus of Historical American English in database format.
Zip folder contains 20 .txt files of historical linguistic data from academic sources, from 1820 to 2010.
This is the format allows for the most robust searches and allows for powerful JOINs across corpus, lexicon, and source tables but requires knowledge of SQL. See Full-text corpus data for more information on how to use the database format
Corpus of Historical American English Lexicon
No full textLexicon for the Corpus of Historical American English
NOW 2021-08 August
No full textCorpus of News on the Web data for August 2021.
The TAR folder contains linguistic data in three formats: Database: This is the format allows for the most robust searches and allows for powerful JOINs across corpus, lexicon, and source tables but requires knowledge of SQL. See Full-text corpus data for more information on how to use the database format. Linear Text: This format provides a textID for each text, and then the entire text on the same line. In this format, words are not annotated for part of speech or lemma. In addition, contracted words like can\u27t are separated into two parts (ca n\u27t) and punctuation is separated from words (eye level . As her). Word, Lemma, Part of Speech: Texts are separated by a line with ## and the textID
NOW 2021-01 January
No full textCorpus of News on the Web data for January 2021.
The TAR folder contains linguistic data in three formats: Database: This is the format allows for the most robust searches and allows for powerful JOINs across corpus, lexicon, and source tables but requires knowledge of SQL. See Full-text corpus data for more information on how to use the database format. Linear Text: This format provides a textID for each text, and then the entire text on the same line. In this format, words are not annotated for part of speech or lemma. In addition, contracted words like can\u27t are separated into two parts (ca n\u27t) and punctuation is separated from words (eye level . As her). Word, Lemma, Part of Speech: Texts are separated by a line with ## and the textID
The Northwest Beyond Coal: The Fight to Close Colstrip
Get PDFAvista Utilities, Puget Sound Energy and four other northwest energy companies own the Colstrip coal plant in eastern Montana that has always been one of the top three – and sometimes #1 – climate polluter in the American West. After a 10-year campaign, the plant is on a path toward closure, eliminating up to 17 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, equal to the climate emissions of over three million cars. How did we get there? What can we learn?
The Colstrip campaign has commonalities with most climate campaigns. There are essential campaign approaches that must be followed in order to ensure we are effective in ending the climate crisis. This presentation uses the Colstrip campaign as a case study to help inform effective climate campaigns for the work that lies ahead.
Doug Howell has been a social and environmental advocate for 30 years. The majority of Doug’s professional career has focused on environmental issues, primarily global warming. In the 1980s in Washington, DC, Doug worked for U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-Maryland) on environmental and other issues. In 1990, Doug worked for a law firm where his main client was the California Energy Commission (CEC). For next nine years, Doug worked for the Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI), where he created and directed their transportation and energy program. In 2000, Doug was hired by Seattle City Light to implement their first-in-the-nation greenhouse gas (GHG) neutral program. In 2004, Doug moved to King County to develop their climate protection program, including the first-in-the-nation long-term GHG reduction targets and implementation plan. In 2007, Doug was hired to run the Northwest regional office for the National Wildlife Federation where he managed staff, raised money and set the pathway for NWF’s future direction in the Northwest. In 2009, Doug joined the Sierra Club to run their Coal-Free Northwest campaign. In this capacity, Doug sets the priorities, develops the implementation plan, and coordinates organizational field staff, Sierra Club departments and external partners to make the Northwest the first coal-free region in the United States
Servant-Leadership and the Montessori Philosophy: A Principal’s View
Get PDFServant-leadership is a philosophy of leadership that has stirred the hearts of many leaders across the world over the last few decades. They can be found in organizations such as businesses, education and non-profits. Taking into consideration Robert Greenleaf’s (1991) assertion, they believe that “the servant-leader is servant first…It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first” (p. 7). According to Greenleaf, a true natural servant-leader responds by listening first and has developed the ability to do so. The followers then see this person as a servant
Spirituality Revisited: Heeding Greenleaf’s Call for the Spirituality of Leadership
Get PDFMany people are called to a vision for a more loving, more just society, but they are unprepared to hear it. As such, most calls go unclaimed. In Proverbs 29:18 we read “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” It is a deeply spiritual work to listen deeply enough to hear a vision, let alone trust it, while awaiting God’s timing for the vision to be born into the world. A birth of call in our lives takes a community of support, just as the birth of any baby. In our role as family, friends and neighbors, we help nurture the unique gifts and capacities given to each person, so that they may be invested in ways that bring blessing, healing, and transformation to the community and to Creation